Re: Reiser4 lockups (no oops)

[Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 04:34:25PM +0100, Chris Boot wrote:
> Quoting Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>:
> 
> >On Wed, Oct 19 2005, Chris Boot wrote:
> >>I don't get any OOPSes or BUGs or anything, not on my screen nor on my
> >>serial console (although I'm not sure I have this working right--I only
> >>seem to get kernel boot messages). Machine replies to pings but I can't
> >
> >Easy fix for that is probably to kill klogd on the machine. Test with eg
> >loading/unloading of loop, that prints a message when it loads.
> 
> I'd love to, but the machine is locked solid and won't turn on the display 
> or
> switch TTYs or anything. Anyway, I've applied reiser4-fix-livelock.patch 
> from
> ftp.namesys.org and so far so good (over night).

aah! nice, those also fix the apt-get freeze I've been having from some
mm kernels ago.

I also managed to get the trace of apt-get freezing by means of Sysrq+P
but I stupidly forgot the fs was readonly so I didn't dump dmesg :P
I can easily reproduce it if anyone is interested.

> I see there's now a reiser4-fix-livelock-2.patch, anybody know the 
> differences?

don't know, I'd try the -2 patches also, they seem a different version
of the same fix/cleanup.

-- 
mattia
:wq!